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fertility of kach'h. [chap. viii.
by the citadel; a more respectable work of the same character,
which incloses the extensive mass of mud-terraced buildings,
denominated the palace of the khan.
Although in J'halawan there is nothing deserving the
name of a river, yet abundance of water can be found even for
irrigation, by digging a few feet into the beds of those streams
which cease to flow with the rains. The province is inter
sected in all directions by mountains ; and, in addition to the
district of Kelat, it contains those of Wudd, Khosdar, Nal,
Punduran, Zuhree, Zedee, and two or three others of less
consequence. There are several towns, and also many per
manent villages, whose inhabitants, in addition to the Nomads
of the plains, constitute a considerable population. Zahri,
the chief town of J'halawan, contains two or three thousand
houses, defended by an ordinary mud wall. 1
Kach'h Gandavah lies eastward of the Hala or Brahuic
mountains; and it has Siwistan on the north, Sinde on the
south, with a desert tract lying between it and the river Indus
on the east. It is scarcely 120 miles long from north to
south, and the width of the habitable and fertile part is but
little more than 60 miles. 2
There are two streams in this province; the Nari, which
comes from the mountains N.W. of Sebee, and runs through
Mithu, Eree, Haji, and other places, until it is finally lost in
the sand and jungle near Tambu; and the Bolan torrent,
whose bed, as we have seen, forms, at one season, the ordi
nary high road to Kandahar. Numerous aqueducts lead the
water from these streams, to irrigate the rich loamy soil of
the plains, which are capable of producing supplies for the
whole of Baluchistan, and from whence, even in their pre
sent state, great quantities of grain, cotton, and indigo, are
exported. The villages covering the cultivated portions of
Kachh are numerous, and it contains likewise several towns,
such as Dadur Beg and Sheree, each having 1000 or 1500
houses. Gandavah, the capital, is walled, rather smaller
than Kelat, and contains the winter palace of the khan, who,
together with the principal sirdars Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. , and a proportion of the
1 Pottinger's Travels, p. 261. 8 Ibid., p. 309.